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Record sheep sales in Western Australia

Dry conditions in WA have caused record amounts of sheep to go under the hammer at the Muchea sale yards.

Tiny Holly

Sheep prices in Western Australia have remained steady despite record numbers being sold this week.

More than 35,000 sheep went under the hammer yesterday and 13,000 are due to be sold today.

Auctioneer Tiny Holly says dry conditions in most of the state's agricultural areas have forced graziers to reduce flock numbers.

However, he says given the large amount of sheep that were sold, prices held remarkably well.

"So it's just some of these larger lines of ewes that are coming in that's probably the real dire straits for them, because it does worry you where sheep are going to come from next year with all these mutton coming in."